Pauline OLIVEROS
“Accordion & voice”
13,00€
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Back in stock. “Utterly essential document of early American minimalism from this pioneering composer. Remastered from the original analog tapes by Carl Saff. Pauline Oliveros (b. 1930) is an accordionist and composer who currently resides in Kingston, New York. Her instrument is tuned in Just Intonation and she often includes it in her meditative improvisational music. Her music is not meditative in the sense that it is intended for listening to while meditating, rather each piece is a form of meditation, such as her aptly titled Sonic Meditations. A central figure in post-war electronic art music, Oliveros is one of the original members of the San Francisco Tape Music Center (along with Morton Subotnick, Ramon Sender, Terry Riley, and Anthony Martin), which was the resource on the U.S. west coast for electronic music during the 1960s. The Center later moved to Mills College, where she was its first director, and is now called the Center for Contemporary Music. Oliveros often improvises with the Expanded Instrument System, an electronic signal processing system she designed, in her performances and recordings. “Accordion and Voice was the first of my recordings as a soloist. I was living in an A-frame house in a meadow just below Mount Tremper at Zen Mountain Center. I had a wonderful view of the graceful saddle mountain top. When away on a performance trip I would imagine the mountain as I played Rattlesnake Mountain. I followed the feelings and sensations of my many experiences of the mountain – the changing colors of the season, the breezes and winds blowing through the grasses and trees. Horse Sings From Cloud taught me to listen to the depth of a tone and to have patience. Rather than initiating musical impulses of motion, melody and harmony I wanted to hear the subtlety of a tone taking space and time to develop. The tones linger and resonate in the body, mind, instrument and performance space. My thanks to Important Records for bringing these pieces to be heard again.” Pauline Oliveros 2007
Réédition. Née en 1930, Pauline Oliveros est une figure historique de la musique expérimentale made in USA. Membre du San Francisco Tape Music Center (avec Morton Subotnick, Ramon Sender, Terry Riley, Anthony Martin…) dans les années 60, avant de devenir la première directrice du Center for Contemporary Music au Mills College, elle explore les instruments analogiques (bandes, synthétiseurs), joue de l’accordéon (en explorant l’intonation juste) ou mélange accordéon et dispositif de captation. Réédition d’un disque sorti en 1982 (qui se complète avec le CD “The wanderer”), son premier en tant qu’instrumentiste solo, accordéon et voix. “Horse sings from cloud” et “Rattlesnake mountain”. Une exploration de la microtonalité et du continuum sonore qui donnera ensuite ce que le compositeur nomma “The deep listening”.
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